Mom of Texas school shooter Salvador Ramos claims he ‘wasn’t a violent person’
The mother of the 18-year-old maniac who gunned down 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school insisted he “wasn’t a violent person” — even though she was “uneasy” about his “rage.”
Adriana Reyes insisted to ABC News that her mass-murdering son, Salvador Ramos — responsible for the second-deadliest school shooting in US history — was “not a monster.”
Still, she admitted she “had an uneasy feeling sometimes, like ‘What are you up to?'”
“He can be aggressive … If he really got mad,” she admitted of her son, who started buying the deadly arsenal he used the day after he turned 18 last week.
“We all have a rage,” she told the outlet from her home — conceding, “Some people have it more than others.”
She had earlier downplayed those concerns in an interview with the Daily Mail. “My son wasn’t a violent person. I’m surprised by what he did,” she had told the outlet earlier Wednesday.
She said her son was a loner who “kept to himself and didn’t have many friends.”
However, she denied having a volatile relationship with him, even though Ramos’ grandfather earlier told ABC News that the teen was living with him and his wife because he “had problems” with his mom.
According to reports, Reyes struggled with drug use and had kicked her troubled son out of her home — forcing him to move in with his grandmother, whom he shot in the face before his unthinkable rampage. The grandmother, Celia Gonzalez, remains hospitalized.
The mom told the Mail that she last spoke to her son on Monday last week — his birthday — and “had a card and a Snoopy stuffed animal to give to him.”
Despite defending her son, the mom had tears in her eyes when discussing the 19 children he slaughtered alongside their two teachers.
“Those kids … I have no words,” Reyes told ABC News. “I don’t know what to say about those poor kids.”
She also told the Mail that she would “pray for those families.”
“I’m praying for all of those innocent children, yes I am. They had no part in this,” she told the outlet.
Her father, Rolando Reyes — the convicted-felon granddad Ramos was living with — insisted to Fox News Digital that his daughter was “feeling bad for everybody.”
“She lost her son, too,” he said of the mass shooter who was eventually killed at the scene.
Rolando Reyes spoke after coming from a hospital visiting his wife, Celia, 66, who was shot in the face by her grandson before he raced to shoot up Robb elementary. She was awake but unable to talk, he said.
“I’m going to get inside, do my prayers, pray for everybody, and read my Bible,” Ramos’ granddad said.
Maria Alvarez, whose son is dating Ramos’ mom, recalled how she saw her searching for her son soon after the attack, refusing to believe he could be responsible for shooting his grandmother.
“She said, ‘I don’t believe that my son would do that. He loved my mom,'” Alvarez told Fox News Digital.
Ramos’ massacre is the second-worst school shooting in US history, behind only the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut, that left 20 youngsters and six educators dead.
“Evil swept across Uvalde yesterday,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday. “Anyone who shoots his grandmother in the face has to have evil in his heart. But it is far more evil for someone to gun down little kids.”
